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  • The London Property Market

    • Reference: 2017/2705
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
    Transparency International's report Faulty Towers: Understanding the Impact of Overseas Corruption on the London Property Market published on 3 March 2017, analysed Land Registry data, to establish the ownership of apartments in 14 landmark London developments. It found that across all of them, around 80 per cent of the apartments had been sold to overseas investors and 40 per cent of those investors came from countries with a high corruption risk, or were companies registered in a 'secrecy haven'. I note that these figures are at variance with your own 13 June 2017 report into foreign ownership (which referenced Transparency...
  • Clarion Group

    • Reference: 2017/2315
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2017
    What representations have you made to Clarion Group, the UK's largest housing association, about their lack of recognition of trade unions in the workplace?
  • Affordable Homes

    • Reference: 2017/2316
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2017
    How is your target of 50 per cent of all new homes in London to be genuinely affordable progressing?
  • Water Supply

    • Reference: 2017/1702
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
    What implications will the projected increase in population from 8.8 million today to 10.0 million in 2026 have for London's water supply?
  • Housing Crisis (1)

    • Reference: 2017/1707
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
    Do you recognise that London's population growth over the last 20 years is almost entirely due to net immigration, as figures show the number of British born people living in London from 1997 to 2017 has stayed the same at 5.2 million, but the number of foreign-born people living in London has risen from 1.9 to 3.7 million.
  • Housing Crisis (2)

    • Reference: 2017/1708
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
    Do you accept that if immigration levels had remained in balance over the last 25 years that there would not now be a housing crisis in London?
  • Housing Crisis (3)

    • Reference: 2017/1709
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
    Do you accept that London's housing crisis will never be solved, if last year's net immigration rate of 134,000 continues?
  • Road pricing

    • Reference: 2017/1710
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
    Road pricing has been recently endorsed by the London Assembly's Transport Committee's report on congestion 'London Stalling'. Do you share my concern that 'big brother style' road pricing in which a government agency monitors all traffic movements by satellite poses a very serious threat to the privacy of every single car and vehicle owner and anyone who cares about individual privacy?
  • The World Economic Forum

    • Reference: 2017/1711
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
    Did you have a good time rubbing shoulders with the movers and shakers of the global elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January?
  • Palmerston Road, Harrow Development

    • Reference: 2017/1714
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
    Will you ensure that the development in Palmerston Road in Harrow does not contain any high rise towers, which are out of character with the area?